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Boffins develop white suit

from Slashdot Meanwhile, I bet I am one of thousands of lazy and unimaginative people who use this image with this story.

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the desk drawer effect in science

J's Blog It's interesting observation that chimes with my own very limited experience. There is much larger number of things that can go wrong than can go right. All the experiments in our lab benefit from the experience of our senior scientific and RA staff. And

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Sci Tat

Carl Zimmer is collecting science tattoos. So I sent him our Necker cubes. Bit miffed but not surprised that he chose the more photogenic of us to picture on his site. Meanwhile, i am thinking of a way to work the stimuli from my statistical learning experiment into a new

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Love and Happiness

You probably want both right? You may be looking in the wrong places. Two short talks from the TED talks series.. Granted the whole TED thing has an sickening taste of pomousness and corporate greenwash, but they do get very good speakers. Helen Fisher on how one should take coke

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infanoid keepon rockin'

Now even robots can dance better than me.. Though you simply must see the video for  the full effect. Not that i will be intimidated or discouraged.. the more on the dance floor the better. I prefer the name the Japanese half of the team give the project.. infanoids is

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how to do science and religion

Wellington Grey provides these helpful flowcharts. [embedded image removed at request of author..]

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twins unparadoxed?

Apparently the twin paradox has been resolved and by a compsci professor no less. See here His solution is pretty much the same as for Newton's Bucket paradox.. take the whole universe as some kind of frame of reference. But I'm not sure that you are

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smashing..

Atom smasher may give birth to 'Black Saturns'New Scientist Super Monkey Collider Loses FundingThe Onion

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super computer

I am now the proud owner of one eightieth(-ish) of a supercomputer. Using the built-in XGrid  clustering/distributed computing gee-whizzery in my PowerBook. It took half a minute to offer up all my spare CPU-cycles to the MacResearch OpenMacGrid. A grid that is open for any deserving research number-crunching

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animal is an energy

http://www.eurekalert.org...s-wal011007.php Dr. Chris Carbone and colleagues from the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London reason on energy grounds that mammalian top carnivores aren't likely to be any bigger than a one ton bear. The authors provide a model of carnivore energetics in

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Irony research..

1. Eric Schwitzgebel has meticulously collected data to show that books about Ethics get stolen more regularly than other books in the philosophy section. via cog daily 2. Research reported in the New York Times suggests that pessimists die earlier than optimists. The latest in a series of similar findings

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Zotero

http://www.zotero.org/ Bibliographies just got (even) easier. I have been experimenting with a new citation management tool for Firefox. Zotero It allows you to gather bibliographic information directly from library webpages. And stores them in a handy pop-up database to which you can add your own annotations, links

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The Volcano Rabbit

"The volcano rabbit, which is endemic to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt surrounding Mexico City, is one of the world’s smallest and most unusual rabbits. It has small, round ears and, unlike other rabbits, makes high-pitched penetrating sounds. The rabbit lives on the slopes of the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl

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The Humble Bee

http://www.boingboing.net...moment_of_.html Boing Boing So is a bumble bee a bee that bumbles or is she just a bumblebee? And what about beer bees?

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Poplar genes are populous..

http://www.eurekalert.org...i-pdc091306.php EurekAlert Just to remind you, the current best estimate is that humans have 24,000 genes.

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power in human units

http://www.eurekalert.org...b-stt060606.php Two power metaphors I hadn't seen before: Yesterday,  Marty Sereno was telling us about the scarieness of the peak oil crisis (see presentation at foot of his homepage) and explaining oils high energy density, he transformed the energy content of a barrel

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Theatrical Science

Have just uploaded the two little pieces that wrote for the Experiment in TheatreWhat is a metaphor?Staging Schrˆdinger's Experiment

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Schoedinger's Cast

Just one possible experiment in a theatre among many Performed by Alan Cox at the Soho Theatre, 17th May 2006 Written by Caspar Addyman 2006 We are all familiar with Schroedinger's cat. A simple little thought experiment that illustrates the bizarre nature of quantum mechanics. But very briefly,

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Post-mortem brain studies reveal features of mild cognitive impairment

http://www.eurekalert.org...j-pbs050406.php Seems I misread this Eureka Alert headline.. death is fatal after all

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Experiments.. in theatre

I know many of you like experiments and that most of you are keen on the theatre. You are all in luck because on the evening of Monday 15th May in the Soho Theatre, London you can enjoy both! Tassos Stevens has a PhD in developmental psychology but for the

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making healthy bacon

http://www.eurekalert.org...m-rcp032106.php Researchers report they have created pigs that produce omega-3 fatty acids, which are known to improve heart function and help reduce the risks for heart disease, representing the first cloned transgenic livestock in the world that can make the beneficial compound. The research could

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Economic Man is psychotic

http://www.harvardmagazine.com/print/030640.html Good article at the Harvard Magazine, surveying the impact psychology is finally having on modern economics.. In some ways it makes the dismal science seem even more dismal since it shows that free and efficient markets never will be as they are full

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The Selfish Gene - 30 years on

http://www.timesonline.co...2075334,00.html Coming up to the 30th anniversary of the publication of Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene. An edited version of his foreword to an anniversary reissue appears in the Sunday Times online: Perhaps the most telling quote.. Many critics, especially vociferous ones learned

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the family trellis

http://www.eurekalert.org...s-nas020906.php A new, more robust analysis of recently derived human gene trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, shows three distinct major waves of human migration out of Africa instead of just two, and statistically refutes ñstrongly ñ the

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try it in loch ness

http://www.eurekalert.org...t-oft013006.php A remote sensor system developed by Associate Professor Nicholas Makris of mechanical engineering, along with others at MIT, Northeastern University and the Naval Research Laboratory, allows scientists to track enormous fish populations, or shoals, as well as small schools, over a 10,000-square-kilometer area